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Aired November 06, 2018 - 07:00   ET

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MIKE PENCE (R), VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're securing our borders. We put that caravan on notice.

[07:00:07] BARACK OBAMA (D), FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The character of this country is on the ballot. How we treat other people is on the ballot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If the Democrats win the House can they work with Trump? Can they moderate his behavior?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This president's policies have helped the job creators and the job seekers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in a political crisis. It is time for every American to be standing up for American values.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Republicans control the Senate.

I've just got one thing to say, tick tock. We're coming.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world to this very exciting edition of NEW DAY.

It is election day in America. How did it get here so soon?

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: It's here, and they're voting.

CAMEROTA: They are voting. So we are live from Washington this morning on what is expected to be a historic night.

Here is live -- here are live pictures of people around the country voting. Polls will be open for half of the country this hour. Twenty-six states and Washington, D.C. Voters will give their verdict today on the direction of the country, the Trump presidency, and they will decide which party will control the House and the Senate. BERMAN: I actually love these pictures right here. This is democracy

at work. And these are volunteers, election workers out there making sure it's done well. Good on them and good on these people, online early in Georgia to get their votes in.

We don't know what's going to happen tonight. We do not know. What we do know is that 31 million people, they voted early. Intensity very, very high.

CAMEROTA: So at stake in this election is 435 House seats, all of them. They're all in play, along with 35 seats in the Senate. Can Democrats flip either the House or the Senate? Or will Republicans keep control of both chambers?

BERMAN: We don't know, as we just said. But we do know that people are voting. The governor's races, they are huge, 36 of them. They could tell us more than anything about the direction of the country.

CAMEROTA: But we just don't know.

BERMAN: But we don't know. Here's what we do know. More than anything, this race is about the president. We know that. He knows that. He's talking about it all the time at these rallies that he kept up until the very end, a dizzying pace, much of the time painting a dark picture on immigration. And that was by design, his design.

Sources tell CNN that he hated an upbeat closing ad that featured positive messaging on the economy, so he inspired this pivot to immigration that included the ad that was so racist and so false it was rejected by CNN and later banned by both NBC and FOX, although after it ran on football, I might add.

We're also watching severe weather out there. This could have an effect on voter turnout.

Whew. Joining us now: CNN political analyst David Gregory; CNN political analyst and Washington bureau chief for "The Daily Beast," Jackie Kucinich; and former special assistant to President George W. Bush and CNN political commentator, Scott Jennings; former South Carolina House member and CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers. Thanks, all, for joining us. That's it for us. Now that I've introduced you, I'm out of time.

DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Good-bye, everybody.

BERMAN: Jackie Kucinich, I want to start with you, because we talked to David a lot for the last two hours. Look --

JACKIE KUCINICH, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: I'm so sorry.

BERMAN: This to me is an election about President Trump. He's been talking about it, and it will get to the limits of his message. If there are any. We will know by tonight.

KUCINICH: That's the question, right? This is back to basics for the president. I remember in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, he sort of

focused on painting this, like, hell scape that was going to take over the United States if Hillary Clinton won. It's back, and it's something that he has -- and that keeps getting bigger.

We were talking before the show it was a caravan. Now it's caravans. We're back to talking about voter fraud and with absolutely no evidence. The president saying that people are going to be prosecuted, and Jeff Sessions issued a statement yesterday, as well. This has all been played before, and it worked for him in the past.

The question is whether this environment is one that it works again and gets his people to the polls.

BERMAN: Hellscape 2.0.

KUCINICH: Yes.

CAMEROTA: Before we get to our super insightful partisans, David Gregory, the big picture from where you sit?

GREGORY: Look, I think there's a lot working against the president. History is working against him. He's got an approval rating of about 41 percent. Historically, we know when a president is at that level. they tend to lose seats in Congress. And that alone could explain him losing the House.

There are 25 congressional districts held by Republicans that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. So there's a lot of defense that this president has got to play.

He's hemorrhaged support among women, among college-educated voters, among the young, among minority voters. All of whom, if we look at the early voting, seem incredibly engaged about voting. There has been a lot of enthusiasm on the Republican side as well, namely after the contentious Kavanaugh hearings for the Supreme Court, but some of that enthusiasm has ebbed.

[07:05:08] And I think the danger for Republicans in that is that they had the whole party united after that, and now the president has had a much narrower hardline immigration message at the end, which may be about his core supporters and getting them out, but may cost him, as well.

CAMEROTA: Do you, Scott, worry that the -- this message that has been sort of heavy on fearmongering and anti-immigration, that it was risky?

SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It was risky and there's two sort of sets of issues the president has, there's all the things he's done, all the promises kept, taxes, regulations, judges, trade, all the things he has done that you can draw a straight line from that to the good economy.

And then there's immigration, which worked for him in 2016. But what all those other issues have in common is that there was legislation that has his name on it. And there's nothing like that on immigration. Although I think he has interesting things to say on immigration and I think a lot of the country is with him, especially in middle America. It was one accomplishment they haven't gotten to.

So I think it's risky to refocus people on what you didn't do when what you did do is so good.

BERMAN: That's interesting. Bakari, hell scape 2.0, as Jackie was pointing out. It worked in 2016.

BAKARI SELLERS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It did.

BERMAN: Why won't it work, or why wouldn't it work this time?

SELLERS: Well, I think you're seeing a more engaged electorate, to David's point. Young people, for example, are voting at a rate that's three or four times what they voted in 2016.

I actually remember, painfully, running for office in 2014 for -- as lieutenant governor candidate in South Carolina. It was a very short night for me, because CNN actually called my governor's race at 7:01. But I digress. Thank you, guys.

GREGORY: This is not close to the surface.

SELLERS: That's PTSD right there.

JENNINGS: But the party started earlier.

SELLERS: It did start early. It did start early.

But -- but you see a way more engaged electorate this go round than it was and the reason being, I think, is because of Democratic candidates. And what we're not paying attention to, and what we're missing -- you alluded to it earlier -- is that Democrats are going to have a great night in the House. I think that they're going to have a better than surprising night in the Senate. I think that --

CAMEROTA: Why are you so optimistic?

SELLERS: I think that Claire McCaskill is going to -- to probably squeak by. I think that Joe Donnelly is going to have a good night.

But even more importantly I think Arizona, Nevada here Democrats are going to reap the most benefit are the gubernatorial races. Wisconsin, Illinois, South Dakota, Michigan. I mean, if you start to look -- Ohio. Those are five -- those are five states that are not New York and California, which fly in the face of Republican messaging that we do not play in middle America. Iowa is up for grabs, a great candidate in Iowa.

So when you look at these attempts to pick up these gubernatorial mansions -- and why do 2018 gubernatorial mansions matter so much? Because of redistricting.

GREGORY: Yes. SELLERS: This is the most important election we have for redistricting.

GREGORY: I thought that was a call and response thing.

SELLERS: That was a call and response.

BERMAN: I was going to David. I was, like, "I'll take redistricting for 500."

SELLERS: And you win. You win. You win a new Bakari Sellers T- shirt.

GREGORY: I think there's two things you identified there, which is not only the ability for Democrats to show they can play outside of the coast. You made that point yesterday, as well. Whether it's Harris County outside of Houston, the suburbs outside of Atlanta, showing that -- and, again, the gubernatorial races are also about, if it's Stacey Abrams, which, again, she's to get to 50 percent. It's going to be a tough race. If it's Andrew Gillum in Florida.

You're also looking for the potential for Democrats to see beyond today at potential leaders for 2020, both an approach and maybe leaders themselves, which is important.

The only thing that -- that I think we should hold up as the potential for some perseverance on the part of Republicans is that it is a strong economy, that wages are up. That there's a lot of people who are feeling that. And this argument -- the president hasn't made it as much -- of promises made, promises kept. There's a lot of voters out there who will compartmentalize and say, "I don't like this guy. I don't like how he expresses himself, but I like the stuff that's going on in the country." And I think we have to hold out room for those people to show up.

CAMEROTA: For sure. That's the part that we just don't know. I mean, this is the wild card. And, you know, as we've seen in 2016, wild cards come to play sometimes.

And so in all the voter panels that I've done, people are torn between exactly what David is saying: Is my life better and can I live with the character issues that have made me uncomfortable? And that's the tension that they're voting on today.

KUCINICH: Well, usually, during midterms all politics are local and -- but the president has tried to nationalize this election from the get-go and make it about himself.

And you're right. I was talking to a voter in Florida who doesn't like Trump, Republican woman. And yet she's -- and she's looking at the candidates in front of her, and she doesn't know who to vote for. And was just going into this, you know, at the end of early voting. I don't know how she ended up voting, but I think -- I think her -- she is the typical person who is really struggling right now with what to do. But as you all say, we just don't know. BERMAN: You know, one of the really fascinating things about our

country is we tend to drift toward divided government. We like it. Americans like it --

CAMEROTA: Checks and balances.

[07:10:07] BERMAN: -- when the White House and Congress are controlled by different parties.

One of the things that's ironic here is that, as divisive as the last two years have been, it has been with Republicans controlling all the branches of government. So I don't know how it's going to play out. I don't know if voters are going to go to the polls and say, "Hey, we want divided government," because what's this last two years been?

JENNINGS: You know, in some of our periods of divided government, big things have happened, but that didn't happen under Barack Obama. There was divided government for his last six years and, really, a lot of the policy debates in this country ground to a halt. We talked a lot, but very little happened.

And I actually think voters in 2016 unified control of government under one party, because they were tired of incrementalism.

Republicans, whether you like the policies or not, have rejected incrementalism, and they've gone with sweeping movement on a lot of their core issues.

So I think going back to divided government probably gives you incrementalism on policy, although Republicans, if they hold the Senate, can still do judges.

But we've had this two-year period, unlike the previous six, where major legislation, some of it bipartisan, but major legislation is moving on down the line. We've radically altered our tax code. The judiciary has changed, and that's on the ballot tonight.

BERMAN: But Obama did that, too, in his first two years. I mean, you had Obamacare --

SELLERS: Right.

BERMAN: You had the bailout. But what I'm saying is -- is that they did big sweeping things the first two years of his presidency; and there was repudiation. And we went back to divided government by choice of the voters.

GREGORY: But that was also an external event. That was also the result of a financial crisis that began under Bush that created a government response that actually turned off conservatives primarily and that ultimately hurt Obama as he tried to do big things.

SELLERS: It's amazing that we're having this policy discussion. This is not one that Donald Trump is having.

As you know, my response would be, yes, Barack Obama literally saved the economy. And the benefits that we're seeing now from Trump, they are the -- they are the ripple effects from Obamacare. The jobs created under Obamacare. They are the ripple effects from TARP and saving the auto industry, which is why Democrats are going to do well in Michigan. And they are the ripple effects from the stimulus package.

But, again, one of the things that Democrats have to be mindful of today, there are two things. In early voting one of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign did, which we were not mindful of, is we cannibalized our own electorate. So we got all these early votes in the bag, but those were people who were going to vote on e-day anyway. Right? So we cannibalized.

But the difference being is that these new voters are young voters. Right? And so young voters, we don't really have this whole tension that we're talking about. We're coming out to vote against Donald Trump. We don't appreciate his rhetoric. We don't appreciate the direction of the country.

So young voters and voters of color who did not cast their ballot in 2014, this is not a tension election. This is a repudiation. This is a "We do not like the direction of the country. We do not like the president of the United States, and we want -- we want to put in office some people who look like us and represent our values." And so we'll see how that plays out.

BERMAN: All right, friends, excellent discussion. Thank you all for being with us. Going to be a long day, I know, for all of you. You'll be on TV, like, 12 other times on 12 other shows.

CNN's "ELECTION NIGHT IN AMERICA" coverage begins at 5 p.m. Eastern. Then join us again early tomorrow. NEW DAY begins at 5 a.m.

CAMEROTA: All right. President Trump playing to voters' fears in his final pitch. Is that effective? One of the president's supporters joins us next.

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[07:17:57] CAMEROTA: A Republican official tells CNN that President Trump, quote, "hated" his campaign's closing ad, the one that featured the economy and an upbeat message.

Instead, the president insisted on ramping up his hardline anti- immigration message, including that ad that was considered racist that was pulled by CNN and then FOX News, NBC and Facebook, but only after it was viewed by millions of people.

So joining us now to talk about all this, we have Matt Schlapp, former political director for George W. Bush and chairman of the American Conservative Union.

Matt, great to have you here in studio.

MATT SCHLAPP, CHAIRMAN, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION: Good to see you all. To see you. CAMEROTA: An exciting day. You, too.

SCHLAPP: Yes. It's our Super Bowl.

CAMEROTA: It is your Super Bowl.

SCHLAPP: And I'm glad that it seems like all early indicators are that a lot of people are going to vote --

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: -- which I think is a great indicator.

CAMEROTA: What do you think about that ad? So the ad --

SCHLAPP: I didn't love that ad.

CAMEROTA: You didn't love that. But are you surprised that even FOX News which, let's face it, has been a booster of President Trump, that they found it so objectionable that they pulled it?

SCHLAPP: Well, I mean, I've run a lot of campaigns where ads get pulled; and a lot of times controversial ads get pulled. And there's a lot about immigrant that is controversial and so I think probably their lawyers felt like there was some legal, you know, vulnerability to keep running it.

I don't think it's a racist ad. I think it's a hard-hitting ad.

CAMEROTA: Just to challenge you on that.

SCHLAPP: Yes.

CAMEROTA: Why don't you think it was a racist ad when --

SCHLAPP: I just think we throw that term around way too casually, which is there is a serious problem with illegal immigration and crime.

I worked for President George W. Bush. We didn't really focus on the down sides of illegal immigration. We always tried to talk about having a welcoming policy and trying to find a way to welcome into society --

CAMEROTA: And this is so different.

SCHLAPP: Over time I have to say, one of the things that we made -- those of us who are pro-immigration Republicans, the mistake we made is, you know, kind of glossing over the down sides of having an immigration system that you don't have control of.

And one of those down sides is, is that people who are in the middle class and people who are starting off on the economic ladder, they lose opportunities on the economic ladder, they lose opportunities; because you have people working on the black market who are working, you know, subsistence wages, sometimes wages below the minimum wage. That's the problem with illegal immigration.

CAMEROTA: I hear you.

SCHLAPP: It hurts -- it hurts regular people.

CAMEROTA: The argument that you're making right now is completely different than what that ad --

SCHLAPP: I didn't love that ad.

[07:20:17] CAMEROTA: But I mean, just to be clear, because the president tweeted this out, so I think that we are in a different universe than what you're talking about. The president endorsed this ad.

SCHLAPP: Right.

CAMEROTA: And it found the most heinous sort of psychopathic double murderer to feature from four years ago, on the same week that, actually, 11 Jews were killed in a synagogue that the president wasn't focused on. And so it does --

SCHLAPP: He was. He was focused and he went to visit. And the rabbi, you know, welcomed him there. And he has a son-in-law and a daughter who are Jewish.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: The president treats the state of Israel as one of our closest allies.

CAMEROTA: But what the president did say --

SCHLAPP: That's not fair to him to say that he didn't take that tragedy seriously.

CAMEROTA: Well, I didn't say he didn't take it seriously. I said that he decided to put out an ad about an old heinous crime rather than a current heinous crime.

SCHLAPP: I don't -- I don't think that's right. I think, look, these -- there are -- there is a big criminal problem when you don't have an immigration system that is orderly and follows the law.

CAMEROTA: I hear you, but, you know, the facts don't support that. You know what all of the research suggests that actually, immigrants commit less crime than people who are born in --

SCHLAPP: Immigrants. People who come here legally, like my relatives and my wife's relatives --

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: -- you go through a very arduous system with lots of background checks. And it takes a lot of time. And the reason for that is you want to make sure you have people who come to America, whether as a legal resident or a future citizen --

CAMEROTA: Yes, of course.

SCHLAPP: -- who will abide by our laws. When you have an illegal immigration system, which we also have, let's face it. There is a black market to all of immigration. And when you have illegal immigration that doesn't go -- those people don't go through that process --

CAMEROTA: But you know that --

SCHLAPP: -- you get a lot more crime.

CAMEROTA: You know that everything that we're talking about, which is the migrants who are somewhere like 800 to 1,000 miles away, that they are trying to apply for asylum. That is our legal system.

SCHLAPP: You and I had this conversation about ten days ago.

CAMEROTA: Yes, and it still exists.

SCHLAPP: And we talked about the fact that you felt like this caravan, even when it gets here, that no one will actually be able to stay in the country.

And the numbers I went back and looked at were we have 125,000, at the most conservative, of the types of people, whether unaccompanied children at the border, families who come to the border, who actually are detained and are released into the interior of our country.

When these people come here, they -- especially if they come with kids, they will be processed.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: And they will be allowed to reside in America. If they miss their first hearing --

CAMEROTA: But that has nothing to do with crime. This is our process.

SCHLAPP: Yes, it does.

CAMEROTA: It does not.

SCHLAPP: No, because --

CAMEROTA: Those people, those folks don't necessarily commit crime. You're making a huge logical leap.

SCHLAPP: Let me start at the beginning. I am a pro-immigration Republican. I do not support --

CAMEROTA: You don't sound like one.

SCHLAPP: I don't support -- well, maybe you should meet my wife. I don't support the efforts to reduce legal immigration.

What I do support is the efforts to make sure that our immigration system allows us to have the people that will help our society be stronger and fuel our economy. Rushing the --

CAMEROTA: I understand that, but asylum is legal. Seeking asylum is legal.

SCHLAPP: The problem is you don't have to rush the border to do it.

CAMEROTA: They're not -- Matt --

SCHLAPP: You can go to any port of entry. You can go to --

CAMEROTA: That's right. That's what they're doing. They're showing up.

SCHLAPP: They're not.

CAMEROTA: You can also just show up at the border. You can -- you can present yourself to a customs agent and ask to seek asylum.

SCHLAPP: You can, and the problem with --

CAMEROTA: Listen, you and I are struggling with this. OK, so --

SCHLAPP: I'm not struggling.

CAMEROTA: You are, because this is legal.

SCHLAPP: I'm not.

CAMEROTA: You're trying to suggest that what's happening is illegal. It's not.

SCHLAPP: What I'm trying to suggest is that, if you need asylum or refugee status and you're coming from Central America, you can apply for that refugee status in Mexico, which is the next continuous country --

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: -- for most of these folks. You don't have to rush the border.

Why do they rush the border? They rush the border, because we are overwhelmed. Now one out of ten people are saying that they -- that they have a credible threat, and they want to be a political asylum.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: Most of these folks that we actually interviewed, and I've watched a lot of CNN's coverage, they're economic refugees. I feel sorry for their economic plight, but that does not get you in America.

CAMEROTA: All right. What our larger issue is -- SCHLAPP: Yes.

CAMEROTA: -- is do you think that this is a winning closing argument from the president? It's not the positive --

SCHLAPP: Immigration?

CAMEROTA: The anti-immigration stance that he's taken.

SCHLAPP: Anti-illegal immigration.

CAMEROTA: The fearmongering.

SCHLAPP: No.

CAMEROTA: You don't see that? I can't --

SCHLAPP: No, not at all.

CAMEROTA: You think that honestly, just because --

SCHLAPP: Because I'm a pro-immigration --

CAMEROTA: Just for yucks, they would pull an ad --

SCHLAPP: Look, let me try. Let me try. I know that you're not going to think that what I'm saying is credible, but I believe that the biggest threat to a vigorous legal immigration system is the American people losing confidence in immigration, because they see the down sides of unchecked illegal immigration.

If we don't stop what's happening with illegal immigration --

CAMEROTA: Right.

SCHLAPP: -- I think our laws that allow for a vigorous legal immigration system will lose political support. We're going to have a big election tomorrow, and immigration is becoming a more and more controversial question.

CAMEROTA: I understand, and you've made this point, but that ad said nothing like that.

SCHLAPP: Yes, it did.

CAMEROTA: That ad featured a psychopath.

SCHLAPP: He was an -- he was an illegal immigrant. He killed a cop.

CAMEROTA: Two.

SCHLAPP: Yes.

[07:25:05] CAMEROTA: My point is so you would stick with that. That's what you would close with? SCHLAPP: No, I -- as I told you, that's not my favorite ad. I like

talking about the economy. I don't have any problem with talking about the economic consequences of unchecked illegal immigration. I'm for it.

Look, and I'm someone -- I worked for President Bush.

CAMEROTA: Right.

SCHLAPP: I understand the idea that we want to have a welcoming policy. We cannot continue to have millions of people get amnesty or talk about amnesty in this country. I think that's a big mistake.

CAMEROTA: OK. Just one interesting thing about the direction of the country. There's this new NBC poll. More people think that we're on the wrong track. Fifty-four percent -- I'll put it up -- believe that we're on the wrong track versus 38 percent who believe that we're on the right --

SCHLAPP: The most important poll, the most important poll.

CAMEROTA: Is today's vote?

SCHLAPP: No, is the right track, wrong track figure. To me --

CAMEROTA: So tell me how that's possible with the economy going --

SCHLAPP: Well, I didn't read this poll. I don't know what the right track is. You're talking about the wrong track. What's the right track?

CAMEROTA: Thirty-eight percent. I'll put it up.

SCHLAPP: OK, so --

CAMEROTA: And 54 wrong track.

SCHLAPP: If that's right, 38 percent, when presidents have been below 40 percent in the right track, they've often had midterm losses.

If you look at the average of all of those right track/wrong track, Donald Trump has been right at 40 percent -- not Donald Trump, the country has been right at 40 percent, which will definitely accrue to his benefit.

When presidents dip far below that 40 percent, like Obama did for almost all his presidency --

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: -- you have a hard -- when the American people don't feel good about the future.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: So the 40 percent number, you might look at that and say that's low. That's actually historically high. That is a very high number to reach.

CAMEROTA: OK, but we're at 38 percent. But either way --

SCHLAPP: Well, that poll says we're at -- I think the average, we're right at 40.

CAMEROTA: OK. If Republicans lose the House today, whose fault will it be?

SCHLAPP: Look, Donald Trump is the biggest political figure I've seen, certainly, in my lifetime. There's no question that people will say it's about Trump, whether he does well or whether the party does well or the party does poorly.

Here's the problem with that, or at least from my side -- the good side of that.

I don't see any scenario where we don't have a very good night in the Senate. The legislative process in Congress is pretty broken. We don't pass a lot. I heard your conversation previously. We just don't do that anymore. We could all go into the reasons.

What really matters to this president is confirming judges. I think we'll have another Supreme Court opening in the next 18 months. I think he'll have more votes so we don't have to worry about maybe the less reliable members of our conference.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

SCHLAPP: And he's going to keep pushing on regulations. It's about a a strong executive. Barack Obama started that trend, and this is continuing.

CAMEROTA: Interesting perspective, Matt Schlapp. Thank you very much.

SCHLAPP: Thanks for having me here.

CAMEROTA: No one knows, as we say, what will happen tonight; but these predictions are fascinating. Thanks so much -- John.

BERMAN: Just one brief correction to that conversation. Matt said polls open tomorrow, there's an election tomorrow. There's an election today.

SCHLAPP: I said tomorrow?

BERMAN: You said tomorrow. It's today.

CAMEROTA: Stop trying to trick people.

SCHLAPP: I'm sorry. It's Groundhog Day.

BERMAN: Don't you know why you're here? They're voting right now.

CAMEROTA: Stop trying to suppress the vote. BERMAN: I have proof. Want to see the proof? I'll show you proof.

Visual proof of voters voting around the country. There they are. They know it's today. They're not waiting in line for tomorrow.

I kid because I love.

When we come back, we're going to talk about the big elections around the country. Stay with us. NEW DAY's special live coverage of election 2018 continues after this.

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